Just one year out from a major financial disaster, some of the most leveraged banks that recently lost billions of shareholder value are now looking to expand their trading operations again. What did we learn from the deleveraging debacle? Nothing.
Apparently even more banks than Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley want to get into commodities speculation. Soc Gen and Bank of America hardly seem like the type, but the opportunity to squeeze retail investors out of their nickels may be too great. In case, traders know that the place to make big money is where the volatility is. So I guess if you are down tens of billions of dollars you will be tempted to enter a market a lot of zig and zag.
Aug 31 Update: It looks like Citigroup does not want to be left out and is diving in head first too.
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